EDGE GAMES
Founded concurrently in 1981 in London and SoCal, EDGE is both the oldest UK indie game publisher and one of the oldest US ones. New releases soon on iOS, Android, Steam, Switch, PS4/5, and Xbox.
www.edgegames.com
@michaeliantorno.com
PhD researcher studying videogame history, industry labour, and IP law. 🎮Dissertation on SNES/SFC preservation, emulation, repros, and hacking. 🦣TTRPGs at Mammoth Island Games. 🕹️Game industry research with Game Arts International Network.
@yifatshaik.bsky.social
There is true freedom in being an adult because you are allowed to be as boring as you want too ~yifatshaik.com~
@velixious.bsky.social
professor of game studies and design, sociologist, retired MMORPG shaman, current cozy game player, mom of two kickass adult daughters, lover of holidays, gin, and cats.
@jessromarcotte.bsky.social
game designer, narrative designer, researcher, maker, writer. 1/3 of Soft Chaos Cooperative. 🌈35. Queer, trans, Mi'kmaw and Eurosettler mix. Organizer of QGCon and other queer COVID-cautious events. they/them https://softchaos.games https://jeka.games
@noizangel.bsky.social
aspiring Doctor of D&D, but not how you think @ YorkU • coined 'D&D industrial complex' • STS/Communications • recovering larp burnout • i love pizza and cats noizangel: literally everywhere https://linktr.ee/nicolewinchester she/her/any/all 🇨🇦🇫🇮🌈
@andreizanescu.bsky.social
PT Faculty in Communication Studies + Socio/Anthro Postdoc @Concordia Blockbuster Resonance & Prestige in AAA Games, Film & Awards Shows Also Magic: The Gathering + Cultural Resonance Streaming by the Rest of Us (2025, MIT Press) www.andreizanescu.com
@stevewilcox.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Critical Game Design @ WLU | Prosocial Game Designer | I research how to mobilize knowledge through play https://www.helloworlds.ca/projects
@mblytheadams.bsky.social
Assistant Teaching Professor in Game Development & Interactive Media at Ontario Tech University, writer of tawdry queer romance games. Personal account: opinions do not represent my employers.
@jeanketterling.bsky.social
she/her ✨ PhD in Legal Studies ✨ Assistant Teaching Prof (LTA) at UNB Dept of Culture and Media Studies ✨ Interdisciplinary legal⚖️/porn🌽/games🎮 studies scholar working on sex in video games ✨
@gerald-voorhees.bsky.social
(he/him) Critical/cultural games studies. Associate Professor of Communication Arts at U Waterloo. Disabled, biracial Chinese-American rhetorician in Canada.
@alexcustodio.com
PhD candidate studying videogame history at Concordia University. My dissertation focuses on the Game Boy’s afterlives, including hacks, mods, and emulation. Pixel artist and cross-stitcher. They/them.
@hanine.bsky.social
here we go again! anthropologist • award-winning game & narrative designer • writer || 8123 - Ł communication PhD student at Concordia game making program coordinator @pixellesmtl.bsky.social arabic localisation at Side https://linktr.ee/hanineelmir
@rainforestsb.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Research Fellow ✒️ @ Tampere University 🇫🇮 Comms Officer 🎤 @cgsaacej.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Currently researching games and exhaustion.
@scottdejong.bsky.social
Making and studying games about disinformation. Fulbright scholar. PhD candidate, Concordia University. FRQSC scholar. scottbdejong.ca
@makopowered.bsky.social
Video Game Scholar, Pixel Artist, YouTube Video Maker, Sometime Game Designer, Self-Professed Pop Culture Junkie. Der Uberdork with a Communication Studies PhD.
@barnfeline.bsky.social
🏳️🌈 haud-ukie cat cushion and sometimes games and media researcher in amiskwaciy/Treaty 6 #BlackLivesMatter #TransRightsAreHumanRights #FreePalestine #LandBack
@cgsaacej.bsky.social
Canadian Game Studies Association / Association canadienne d’études des jeux. Publisher of Loading... Journal. gamestudies.ca
@mattjwells.bsky.social
• Post-PhD, itinerant instructor, digital games, history of computing • Self-diagnosed game developer, working on Frenzy, a Far Cry demake from an ecofeminist perspective • Fan of '90s video games, '80s hip hop, and '70s computer science
@simondor.com
Prof in game and media studies @ UQAT Montréal, author of StarCraft: Legacy of the Real-Time Strategy (UMichigan Press, 2024), ed. @ Kinephanos & collection ed. @ PUQ. Power & control in strategy & management games. Leftist. FR/EN. He/him. Il/lui.
@marclaj.bsky.social
Coordinator of the Technoculture, Art, and Games Research Centre. Game researcher, university instructor, podcast producer, musician, and author. Mostly a person though! krafftmine.bandcamp.com/album/we-who... connectingtogame.ca
@srirachanikorn.bsky.social
📟 Sociologist: nostalgia, video games, and social pain. Co-founder of @nostagain.bsky.social 🚀 Learn more about me at https://richysrirachanikorn.wixsite.com/home 🏡 Based at the Technoculture, Art, and Games (TAG) Research Centre
@profjay.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Game Studies. GPD MA in Game Studies. Brock University, dept. of Digital Humanities.
@videogamehistorian.bsky.social
Videogame historian extraordinaire FRQSC and SSRCH-funded PhD candidate in Videogame History and Preservation CGSA Francophone Rep Creator of Deadplay podcast
@thechristinet.bsky.social
✨CEO of peer-reviewed vibes (they/she) ✨Asst Prof (LTA) of Digital Media & Game Studies, U of Toronto Mississauga ✨Researcher of work, play, livestreaming & creator economy ✨PhD(c) U of Toronto iSchool ✨ https://thechristinet.wordpress.com/
@persephone.blue
🔥 ludoarsonist 🕹️ media scholar 🎮 game maker AP of Experimental Game Design @UAlberta. Dir. @ https://darcmode.org + https://triptable.top. 🔍 trans play 🏳️⚧️ TRPGs 🎲 extremism 💀 & the ✨unplayable✨ 🌐 https://persephone.blue 🎲 https://gravesnail.itch.io
@masc4magikarp.bsky.social
A level 5 Magikarp aspiring to be a Game Studies Scholar, interested in Interactivity, Game-Player Relations, and LGBTQ+ Storytelling
@burnedprof.bsky.social
🇨🇦 in 🇺🇸. academia has 4 parts: research, teaching, service & politics. i got the 1st 3 right. posts mine & might be info. my passport says i am 183cm tall. when you're burned, you've got nothing. no pets, no insta & you're not going anywhere. ça que c'tait.
@profmatthew.bsky.social
Media Studies, Film Studies, Game Studies Professor. I study nerd stuff. Co Editor The Bloomsbury Handbook on Sex and Sexuality in Game Studies
@cloobot.bsky.social
Experimental gamemaker, captured media superfan, wanderer in forests. OCAD University/kokoromi (she/them)
@davidkocik.bsky.social
Ph.D. in Media, Cinema, and Digital Studies from UW-Milwaukee | Researching video games, sexuality, and transnational media circuits though a cultural studies lens | Percussionist and cat dad
@courtneyblamey.bsky.social
professional overthinker PhD Candidate @ Concordia University | GAMERella Co-Director critical design; values/meaning; emotional game design she/her courtneyblamey.com
@andrewrbailey.bsky.social
SSHRC postdoc researching/creating videogame archives at the Technoculture, Art and Games Research Lab at Concordia University. Teaching games studies and new media art history at OCAD University. He/him. 📚 https://arbailey2297.github.io
@justinrobs.bsky.social
MA Media Studies graduate and Queer Game Studies scholar. Sometimes I stream 👾 Known to be a messy everything.
@pdmcdonald.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Design, Informal and Creative Education, UW-Madison. Game and play scholar, potter and dog friend.
@myrnamoretti.bsky.social
Postdoc @ Western U FIMS + Starling Centre | Instructor @ OCAD | PhD Screen Cultures @ Northwestern | popular culture, gender, labour, and digital histories | Sometimes filmmaker 📹💾
@jasonaboyd.bsky.social
Assoc Prof, English, Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU); Director, TMU Centre for Digital Humanities, https://www.torontomu.ca/centre-digital-humanities/. Research interests include connections between literary studies and video games, eLit, queer DH
@kenzitronic.bsky.social
Settler on treaty 6, PhD candidate in feminist game studies @ ualberta, itinerant social worker, parent, usually in over my head on a wild DH scheme. She/her
@pippinbarr.bsky.social
Game maker. Associate Professor of Computation Arts at Concordia University in Montréal. Half of GAMETHING. https://pippinbarr.com https://gamething.life
@rohuinac.bsky.social
✨ Milieux ✨ AI/Aesthetics/Play 🤖 HUMA PhD, Concordia ✨ writer ✨ kludge queen ✨ WvW addict 🎮 MTL/NYC 🍕🐀🗽 Lucky Charms 🍀 Enjoyer 💅 Neurodiversity 🌻 www.rowenac.com ✨
@smgrimes.bsky.social
Wolfe Chair in Scientific + Technological Literacy & Professor at McGill University. I research kids + tech + play/games/creativity, advocate for children’s rights in policy/design. Author of Digital Playgrounds (2021) and Kidfluenced (underway).
@unsurprisinglee.bsky.social
PhD Candidate @UofT, graduate research fellow @ Centre for Culture and Technology; studying us military and militarism, milsim videogames, and the history of computation. she/her 🏳️⚧️
@sadmediahistorian.bsky.social
Canadian researcher and lecturer in media and game history or spaces. I tend to write about representations, histories, identities, politics, video games and role-playing games. There will be typos.
@mnixon.bsky.social
Associate Professor, teaching stream university of Toronto Mississauga Digital media & game studies
@personofcon.bsky.social
Phd haver and UWaterloo English instructor. Interested in games, digital media, comic books, and gamebooks. He/him